Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...America to remember that naval problems are not confined to the Atlantic and Pacific alone," said C. A. Herter '15, Editor of "The Sportsman" and lecturer on international relations at Harvard, in discussing the 1930 Naval Parley with a CRIMSON representative yesterday. "There is a problem in the Mediterranean in which Great Britain, Italy, and France are vitally interested...
...turned from friend to foe. For the most part Italian-speaking, individualistic, the Maltese have always leaned less toward the Britain that owns them than toward the Italy that is near them.* The Fascisti retaliate with friendship, bitterly realizing that possession of Malta gives Britain virtual command of the Mediterranean. Lately, Fascist and Maltese editors have been hoarsely agitating for the return of Malta to Italy. Last week, over the signature of Friend Lord Strickland an order was issued which 1) Forbade circulation of any newspapers or pamphlets containing anti-British or anti-Strickland propaganda. 2) Imposed penalties of three...
...Malta lies 60 miles south of the southern tip of Sicily. Plumped directly in the path of trans-Mediterranean shipping, it still remains the fortress it was when ruled by the Order of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem...
...consequence we cannot subscribe to naval parity with any other European Continental power such as would result in our Mediterranean fleet being in a position of inferiority in that...
...acted Léa in the 1925 dramatization of Cheri, is the onetime wife of "Willy" (Novelist Henry Gauthiers-Villars) and of Biographer Henry de Jouvenel (The Stormy Life of Mirabeau, TIME, Aug. 5). Now free and 56, she is short, wellrounded, long-eyed. She likes good food, the Mediterranean, the wildcats she keeps in her small but colorful Palais Royal flat. In literature Authoress Colette is distinguished for presenting the human side of animals, the animal side of humans...